Chapter-1[Resources and Development]
1. Which one of the following types of resources is iron ore?
a) Renewable
b) Biotic
c) Flow
d) Non-renewable
Answer. d) Non-renewable
2. Under which of the following type of resources tidal energy cannot be put?
a) Replenishable
b) Human-made
c) Abiotic
d) Non-recyclable
Answer. d) Non-recyclable
3. Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab?
a) Intensive cultivation
b) Deforestation
c) Over irrigation
d) Overgrazing
Answer. c) Over irrigation
4. In which one of the following states is terrace cultivation practiced?
a) Punjab
b) Plains of Uttar Pradesh
c) Haryana
d) Uttarakhand
Answer. d) Uttarakhand
5. Which of the following is not an example of Biotic resources?
a) human beings
b) flora and fauna
c) fisheries
d) Minerals
Answer. d) Minerals
6. Which of the following is an example of renewable or replenishable resources
a) Minerals
b) Forest and Wildlife
c) Fossil Fuel
d) Iron Ore
Answer. b) Forest and Wildlife
7. Which of the following are examples of Community Owned resources?
a) Grazing ground
b) Burial grounds
c) Playgrounds in urban areas
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
8. Oceanic area up to -------- nautical miles from the coast is termed territorial water and resources therein belong to the nation.
a) 10
b) 12
c) 22
d) 200
Answer. b) 12
9. The oceanic resources beyond 200 nautical miles of the coastline of the country belong to the open ocean and no individual country can utilize these without the concurrence of international institutions.
a) 10
b) 12
c) 22
d) 200
Answer.
10. India has got the right to mine --------- from the bed of the Indian Ocean economic zone.
a) manganese nodules
b) rare earth minerals
c) Gold
d) Petroleum
Answer. a) manganese nodules
11. Resources that are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilization are termed as?
a) Potential Resources
b) Developed Resources
c) Community Owned Resources
d) International Resources
Answer. b) Developed Resources
12. Resources that are found in a region, but have not been utilized. It is termed?
a) Potential Resources
b) Developed Resources
c) Stock resources
d) International Resources
Answer. a) Potential Resources
13. Materials in the environment that have the potential to satisfy human needs but human beings do not have the appropriate technology to access, are called?
a) Potential Resources
b) Developed Resources
c) Stock resources
d) Reserve Resources
Answer. c) Stock resources; for example, Hydrogen is abundant in the environment but we do not technology to use it, so it is considered a stock resource.
14. ------------- are the subset of the stock, which can be put into use with the help of existing technical ‘know-how’ but their use has not been started.
a) Potential Resources
b) Developed Resources
c) Stock resources
d) Reserve Resources
Answer. d) Reserve Resources
15. ------------- development means ‘development should take place without damaging the environment, and development in the present should not compromise with the needs of the future generations.
a) Sustainable economic
b) Planned
c) Quality of
d) Ecological
Answer. a) Sustainable economic
16. Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit is also known as the earth summit, it happened in?
a) 1992
b) 1993
c) 1994
d) 1991
Answer. a) June 1992
17. Which of the following declaration was signed at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit?
a) Declaration on Global Climatic Change
b) Declaration of Biological Diversity
c) Agenda 21
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
18. Agenda 21 was signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Agenda 21 is related to?
a) It is agenda to achieve global sustainable development
b) It is an agenda to combat environmental damage, poverty, and disease through global cooperation on common interests, mutual needs, and shared responsibilities.
c) It is also proposed for every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
19. Arunachal Pradesh has an abundance of ----------resources but lacks infrastructural development.
a) Coal
b) Iron ore
c) Fossil fuel
d) Water
Answer. d) Water
20. Which of the following is not part of Resource Planning?
a) Surveying, mapping, and qualitative and quantitative estimation and measurement of the resources.
b) Evolving a planning structure endowed with appropriate technology.
c) Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans.
d) Resources utilization at an enormous rate.
Answer. d) Resources utilization at an enormous rate.
21. Which of the following gave the “There is enough for everybody’s needs and not for anybody’s greed.” statement about resource conservation.
a) J L Nehru
b) M K Gandhi
c) B R Ambedkar
d) Narendra Modi
Answer. b) M K Gandhi
22. At the international level, the Club of Rome advocated resource conservation for the first time in a more systematic way in ------?
a) 1968
b) 1978
c) 1985
d) 1987
Answer. a) 1968
23. Brundtland Commission Report, was published in which year?
a) 1968
b) 1978
c) 1985
d) 1987
Answer. d) 1987; Brundtland Commission Report is also known as Our Common Future.
24. What percentage of India's total geographical areas are plain areas?
a) 27
b) 30
c) 43
d) 53
Answer. c) 43
25. What percentage of India's total geographical areas are mountainous areas?
a) 27
b) 30
c) 43
d) 53
Answer. b) 30
26. What percentage of India's total geographical areas are plateaus areas?
a) 27
b) 30
c) 43
d) 53
Answer. a) 27
27. The lands which are left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year, are called?
a) Culturable wasteland
b) Current fallow
c) Other than current fallow
d) Permanent pastures and grazing land
Answer. b) Current fallow
28. The lands which are left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years, are called?
a) Culturable wasteland
b) Current fallow
c) Other than current fallow
d) Permanent pastures and grazing land
Answer. c) Other than current fallow
29. The lands which are left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years, are called?
a) Culturable wasteland
b) Current fallow
c) Other than current fallow
d) Permanent pastures and grazing land
Answer. a) Culturable wasteland
30. Area has sown more than once in an agricultural year plus the net sown area is known as ------ cropped area.
a) Net
b) Gross
c) Forested
d) Barren
Answer. b) Gross
31. As per General land use categories 2014-15, what is the percentage of land under net sown area?
a) 45.26
b) 45.50
c) 23.3
d) 18.11
Answer. b) 45.50
32. As per General land use categories 2014-15, what is the percentage of land under net sown area?
a) 12.01
b) 5.50
c) 23.30
d) 18.11
Answer. c) 23.30
33. As per General land use categories 1960-61, what is the percentage of land under net sown area?
a) 12.01
b) 35.50
c) 23.30
d) 18.11
Answer. c) 23.30
34. Total geographical area of India is -----million sq km.
a) 3.28
b) 32.8
c) 320.8
d) 0.328
Answer. a) 3.28
35. Which of the following human activities has degraded the quality of land?
a) deforestation
b) overgrazing
c) mining and quarrying
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
36. In states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha deforestation due to ----------- has caused severe land degradation.
a) Shifting cultivation
b) Over irrigation
c) Mining
d) Overgrazing
Answer. c) Mining
37. In states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra ------- is one of the main
reasons for land degradation.
a) Shifting cultivation
b) Over irrigation
c) Mining
d) Overgrazing
Answer. d) Overgrazing
38. In the states of Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh, ---------is responsible for land degradation.
a) Shifting cultivation
b) Over irrigation
c) Mining
d) Overgrazing
Answer. b) Over irrigation
39. Which of the following is a method to check land degradation in arid areas.?
a) Afforestation
b) Planting of shelterbelts
c) growing thorny bushes
d) control of mining activities
Answer. c) growing thorny bushes
40. Alluvial soils as a whole are very fertile. Mostly these soils contain an adequate proportion
of potash, phosphoric acid, and ------?
a) Nitrogen
c) Calcium carbonate
c) lime
d) Magnesium
Answer. c) lime
41. Which of the following soil is ideal for the growth of sugarcane, paddy, and wheat?
a) Alluvial soil
b) Black soil
c) Red soil
d) Laterite soil
Answer. a) Alluvial soil
42. Black soils are generally poor in ---------- contents.
a) phosphoric
b) lime
c) potash
d) Calcium carbonate
Answer. a) phosphoric; Black soils calcium carbonate, magnesium, potash, and lime. Black soils are generally poor in -phosphoric and nitrogen contents.
43. Red soil develops on ---------- igneous rocks in areas of -------- rainfall in the eastern and southern parts of the Deccan plateau.
a) crystalline and high
b) crystalline and low
c) basaltic and high
d) basaltic and low
Answer. b) crystalline and low
44. Red soils develop a reddish color due to diffusion of ------- in crystalline and metamorphic rocks.
a) Iron
b) Copper
c) Zinc
d) Nickel
Answer. a) Iron
45. The laterite soil develops under -----------with the alternate wet and dry season.
a) tropical climate only
b) Subtropical climate only
c) tropical and subtropical climates
d) equatorial climate only
Answer. c) tropical and subtropical climates
46. Lateritic soils are mostly ------in nature?
a) Acidic
b) Alkaline
c) Saline
d) Neutral
Answer. a) Acidic
47. Which of the following soil is most suitable for growing coffee and cashew nut?
a) Alluvial
b) Red and yellow
c) Laterite soil
d) Black
Answer. c) Laterite soil
48. Laterite soils are mostly found in?
a) Southern India
b) the North Eastern States
c) Gujarat
d) Rajasthan
Answer. a) Southern India; Western Ghats, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh.
49. The lower horizons of the soil are occupied by Kankar because of the increasing calcium content
downwards. The above, the characteristics of which soil?
a) Arid
b) Red and yellow
c) Laterite soil
d) Black
Answer. a) Arid
50. The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels as------?
a) Badland
b) Gullies
c) ravines
d) Valley
Answer. b) Gullies
51. The land becomes unfit for cultivation and is known as
a) Badland
b) Gullies
c) ravines
d) sheet erosion
Answer. a) Badland
52. Sometimes water flows as a sheet over large areas down a slope and the topsoil is washed away. This is known as?
a) Badland
b) Gullies
c) ravines
d) sheet erosion
Answer. d) sheet erosion
53. Ploughing along the contour lines can ------------ the flow of water down the slopes.
a) decelerate
b) accelerate
c) stop
d) store
Answer. a) decelerate
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Chapter-wise MCQ Class 10 Geography NCERT
- Resources and Development MCQ
- Forest and Wildlife Resources MCQ
- Water Resources MCQ
- Agriculture MCQ
- Minerals and Energy Resources MCQ
- Manufacturing Industries MCQ
- Lifelines of National Economy MCQ
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